Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 044bd354126d4def…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.2 KB Created: 2021-09-08 12:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: e7158345dcb174711bbcbfa22d492d91 SHA-1: 7064b716ffddc826fb426bda785d0f32646c7a1e SHA-256: 044bd354126d4defa4d99870dbc6293d5eafc4bdb39d9ecc293480b235412ef6
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous links pointing to compromised websites, suggesting it is part of a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of external URIs and compromised CMS upload links indicates a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=jenis+kontrasepsi+hormonal+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://thesmithgrouphouston.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b72141743665511bbf5d2ce4a22b30e3/53109224502.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sieckultury.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7fb5cf1ed1001034794ce6b002f77a39/21244638277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiotrusso.it/userfiles/files/52125012960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rath-catering.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611a3c8c6721a---12619852285.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.conkite.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2bd2f6b8c6d3d2b0aa3475b639657e3b/20933776091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160710ba71bfa4---56454178928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aq7vn20efbah18sjhqifq3mp1/vonalumixaduli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b48152978ba---xitibesedomiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aterhesseg.com/up_image/file/rikonibububijub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longarmquiltacademy.net/fckeditor/userfiles/file/xezura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ivepe-elearning.gr/assets/UserFiles/mainHome/file/39371978882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glina-master.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18911349155.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bud-med.eu/userfiles/file/65659556632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooobelkom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ruwupafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://midel.me/userfiles/file/84600517362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.investing-in-women.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607f1c74bc0e8---45501112940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.phonefixcomo.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e805f351a1b---5024564756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arihantgranites.in/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6kinl8ub4aujg1p1feug4tq4n2/pigisubiraper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwingscolley.com/uploads/files/zotawadojejeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bpabv.nl/uploadfiles/file/gatetaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hk-sai.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/80728687065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldkelo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/04537f6c51020fc2bea5222ab6c65226/99273797464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://balajihighfields.in/userfiles/file/fanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/38641103663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1C2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9D4 17444 bytes
SHA-256: 483650bbb57e140f1978572af3fba9b2f19ea1267a613a3f5cdcb89250d763b3
font_02_sfnt_off00012678.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12678 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 28725947d30fc6a8305036940f38bff97d67f918b249ff6398d692e68abbe8bc